A lot of slides, text, images, examples have been peered from GEE core team folks' presentations.
You can find the original documents here:
http://earthenginesummit2015.earthoutreach.org/training-materials
10/11/2015
Important note
Requirements and terms of use
Terms of use
Who can use GEE?
“… the Services may only be used for development, evaluation, research, or educational purposes. Services may be evaluated in a production environment but not for sustained commercial purposes. Maps created with Analysis Capabilities may not be resold.”
Terms of use
Intellectual Property Rights?
“… these Master Terms and the Addendums do not grant either party any express, implied, or other rights to the other’s content or any of the other’s Intellectual Property Rights. Intellectual Property Rights in and to the content accessed through the Services are the property of the applicable content owner and may be protected by applicable laws..”
You own your Intellectual Property Rights and your content
Requirements
have a Google account
have been accepted as a GEE beta tester
have a compatible web browser (Google Chrome, Firefox, …)
General presentation of GEE
What is GEE?
Earth Engine is…
- Access to over 40 years of Satellite Imagery (with daily updates).
Scientific algorithms to analyze that data (as well as your own data).
Google's computer clusters to analyze the data at scale.
A web-based tool for interactive data exploration.
An API for building your own specialized websites.
What can it do?
- get an image
The Earth Engine Public Data Catalog
> 200 public datasets
> 5 million images
> 4000 new images every day
> 5 petabytes of data
What can it do?
get an image
apply an algorithm to an image
What can it do?
get an image
apply an algorithm to an image
filter a collection
What can it do?
get an image
apply an algorithm to an image
filter a collection
map an algorithm over a collection
What can it do?
get an image
apply an algorithm to an image
filter a collection
map an algorithm over a collection
reduce a collection
What can it do?
get an image
apply an algorithm to an image
filter a collection
map an algorithm over a collection
reduce a collection
compute aggregate statistics
How it works?
How it works?
How it works?
How it works?
How it works?
How it works?
Main GEE feartures
The Earth Engine Home Page
https://earthengine.google.org/
- Browse the data catalogue
- Do some simple visualisation
- Perform simple operations without having to write any code
The Earth Engine “Playground”
https://ee-api.appspot.com/
A web app that combines a script editor with a map to display the results.
Lets you interactively develop an analysis workflow using the Earth Engine JavaScript library.
Includes example code to get you started, reference docs for library functions, an output console and data inspectors, a charting interface, and data export tools.
The Earth Engine “Playground”
https://ee-api.appspot.com/
